"If I want it, I'm gonna get out here and get it"
There has been much discussion and hand wringing by the media over the problems of gang-related violence in Chicago, but not much has been heard from the young men and women whose everyday lives are fodder for Monday morning headlines and 11:00 p.

We caught our share of flack while offering a rebuttal to Gawker's Chief Keef proclamation and questioned whether the young artist's lyrical content should be heralded as beacon for a city whose levels of violence, particularly among its youth, are constantly at drastic highs compared to the rest of the nation.